Since six months, the Italian political system is forcing its media to stay completely silent about a legal action on taxation versus the Italian Government, opened by the International Provisional Representative of the Free Territory of Trieste with the support of the Free Trieste Movement and of hundreds of citizens and enterprises (LINK).

But Italian politicians cannot stop the internet, which makes their problem even more evident: they know the legal action is grounded, they are afraid that any news about it would increase the number of interventions, and they try to find a way to force the Court of Trieste to void issuing a judgment in favor of the appellants.

At the same time, news about the increasing successes of the legal battle for the correct administration of the Free Territory of Trieste and of its international Free Port are also carefully reviewed by the analysts of Countries that have special political and economic interests over it.

And so, on December 7th in Vienna, on its latest issue, No. 49/2017, historical and authoritative economic and financial weekly paper Börsen-Kurier published an article by Tibor Pásztor about “Status von Triest als UN-Treuhandgebiet bestätigt – VOR PROZESSLAVINE IN TRIEST?” (LINK), which we publish hereafter, translated in Italian and in English:

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The status of Trieste as UN special trusteeship is confirmed

Loads of lawsuits in Trieste?

After decades of political and legal struggles, the citizen’s movement “Trieste Libera” won for the first time against the Italian State. The Italian Government had to admit it: Trieste does not belong to Italy. But what happens next?

It is a decades long dispute, forgotten everywhere but in the North Adriatic region. In 1947, after the end of World War II, Italy, which was allied with Hitler, was forced by the United Nations to hand over the city of Trieste, obtained only in 1919.

Since the United States and the United Kingdom, both permanent members of the UN Security Council, refused to subdue to the claims of Yugoslavia – which at the time had not yet split from Stalin’s Soviet Union – over the port-city of Trieste, the city was proclaimed a Free State and territory under a special trusteeship mandate, and so it is in our days.

Yet, Italy was able to have the whole question forgotten with nonchalance, and also cutting funds to all local media. This tactic worked especially because the long lasting administration of the Allies proved impossible to continue.

The problem was ultimately solved in 1954, keeping the little Free State divided into two Zones (A and B) which were entrusted under a temporary civil administration to the Italian and Yugoslav Government respectively. Under administration, for instance, does not mean under the State’s sovereignty.

In 1991, when Yugoslavia started to collapse and both Slovenia and Croatia became independent, the international community recognized the new borders of the two new States. Zone B was therefore discarded, but Zone A, consisting in the city of Trieste, the international Free Port, and five smaller Municipalities was spared, even if it does no longer appear on maps.

This unsatisfactory situation had and has not only political importance, but also economic relevance, because it involves the Free Port, which exists since 298 years, over which the 1947 Treaty of Peace consolidated not only special advantages to the victorious powers in World War II, but also, among others, to the successor States of the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy.

After a long dispute and a written confirmation by the UN Secretary General of the time, Ban-Ki Moon, this year the Italian Government had to surrender.

On 13 July 2017, the Italian Ministry of Transport and Navigation, together with the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance have finally confirmed Trieste’s legal status is that of a territory administered under special the UN trust system.

But this is not enough to settle the whole question. A hearing held before the Court of Trieste on 28 November to establish if the Italian collection taxes in Trieste during the past 63 years was legal or not is set to continue in May 2018. The main complainant is the “International Provisional Representative of the Free Territory of Trieste – I.P.R. F.T.T.” and it is supported by “Trieste Libera” as well as by more than 400 citizens and entrepreneurs from both Trieste and abroad. More legal disputes will follow. Last but not least, one important question will be establishing whether Trieste belongs to the European Union or not.

Anyways, both “Trieste Libera” and the “I.P.R. F.T.T.” hope for both an economic reviving of the Free Port, which is on the Suez-Mitteleuropa-Baltic route, as well as for international investors.

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Trieste, 26 October 1954

by Paolo G. Parovel

On the 26th of October 1954 the first provisional Government of State of the present-day Free Territory of Trieste, entrusted to the Governments of the United States and of the United Kingdom, the Allied Military Government Free Territory of Trieste – AMG FTT, was substituted in the exercise of temporary civil administration by the Italian Government, under a Memorandum of Understanding signed in London on the 5th of October.

The direct British-US administration, efficient and honest, had revived the economy of Trieste establishing a fair taxation and promoting its economic development with funds like the counterpart fund, which the United States granted to the Free Territory of Trieste as to all other European States involved in the E.R.P. – European Recovery Program, also famous as “Marshall Plan”.

The results were good, because the 27 years of Italian occupation and then annexation after World War I had not yet destroyed the economic culture and entrepreneurial mindsets of the Habsbourg’s Trieste in industry, trade, and around the seas of the world.

Instead, during the British-US administration, Italy had provided with money and weapons Italian nationalists and Neofascists in Trieste, and it did it with great sums that they ultimately made them a powerful group more and more wealthy, arrogant, corrupted, and violent.

26 October 1954

On 26 October 1954, nationalistic propaganda was selling the change of provisional administration as “return of Trieste to Italy” promising a bright future for all, and photographers as well as cameramen immortalised a huge crowd of enthusiasts and curious who greeted Italian Troops in Piazza Grande and along the seashores.

But the paradox is, about two thirds of that crowd consisted in Italians that had come to Trieste to see Triestines greeting Italians. The majority of Triestines were sceptical or against that, so they remained far from the celebrations, while poet Biagio Marin, despite siding with the Italians, wrote prophetically:

«Trieste rejoices this evening. It celebrates with drive its incoming misfortune. Because all the times that our city, with the greatest enthusiasm, offered itself, to beloved Italy, immediately went down the way of decadence. We were the jewel of Maria Theresia’s empire, and Austria’s port, we were the Habsbourg’s scented rose. With Italy we’ll be a small boatyard managed in a great rush by bureaucrats, and we’ll become a suffocated and resigned society made of easy profits and of unbreakable nostalgias. Today it the day our sunset begins.»

And so it has been, because the new administering Government did immediately seize control of local economy bleeding it illegally with the enormous taxes of the Italian State, and making it dependant of Italian public money, which however Rome continued to provide using American funds destined to the Free Territory of Trieste.

The means of fiscal aggression

I am one of the witnesses of the beginning, on that very day, of the Italian fiscal aggression to the economy of the Free Territory of Trieste, as well as of its systematic continuation.

In 1954 I was 10 years old, and my parents, Eugenio Parovel and Nerina Widmar, conduced with success our agency for the distribution of international press established in 1882, with a bookstore and head office behind the Piazza Grande, in Via del Teatro, a branch in Istanbul, Istiklal Caddesi 495, and another branch in Ljubljana during the war.

Two things I remember well about that 26th of October: the excited crowd in the square and on the seashores, under the rain, and the immediate, brutal irruption of the Italian Guardia di Finanza (fiscal police)in our agency. My father, born in Trieste as an Austrian citizen in 1900, had also worked in France, in Belgium, in Alexandria (Egypt), in New York, at the Brennerpass and in Istanbul, but he had never received such a treatment.

He was a honest entrepreneur and the Italian fiscal police found no irregularities, however, the Intendenza di Finanza (Italian Superintendence to Finance, now Revenue Office) burdened him with taxes so unfair and excessive that his activity was paralyzed.

He became ill because of it, but did not give up, in 1957 he was able to support the re-opening of the Galleria del Tergesteo, which belonged to company Tripcovich of Baron Gottfried von Banfield, moved the bookstore inside it with new furnitures designed by Alessandro Psacaropulo, and an art gallery that faced Piazza della Borsa, which he managed together with Piero Florit, and hosted works by Lucio Fontana and other famous authors.

My father died the following year, at only 58 years of age, and the Italian Intendenza di Finanza did immediately assault us with inheritance taxes that were five times higher than the amounts due. We appealed to the first instance of the Tax Commission, which confirmed our instances, but, despite being aware that its requests were illegitimate, the Intendenza di Finanza appealed against this decision; in second instance we won again. So the Intendenza di Finanza impugned the decision before a central Commission in Rome, which rejected our reasons without allowing us to defend ourselves.

This illegal violence perpetrated by Italian tax authorities made things so difficult that we would have had to close our activities if it weren’t for the help of our employees and of two gentlemen educated in Austrian Trieste: baron Banfield and Ugo Hirn-Irneri, founder of the Lloyd Adriatico, who did not forget the help he had received by my parents when he was still poor.

A few years later we had to give up on the distribution agency anyways, and in the 1980s, when I had to give up on the bookstore as well, Italian tax authorities did once again burden me with taxes trice as great as those due, and I could have this tax request ruled null and void only after 15 years of legal actions, with all consequent economic damages.

Six decades of economic ransack

Since 1954, the Italian administration has applied this treatment to thousand of business of all kinds and sizes, adding to it the sabotage of the international Free Port, the theft of the shipyards, the closure of the stock exchange, and the slow annihilation of nearly all historical, great enterprises of Trieste that worked by land or by sea. Even the Lloyd Adriatico has been sold, and the Tripcovich has been annihilated with scandalous procedures.

This is how Trieste, the Philadelphia of Europe, created by Austria around the Free Port with two centuries of immigrating entrepreneurs and workers with different languages, cultures, and faiths, turned into a Country of emigration to other European States and to the Americas.

The result is the dramatic reality of our days, when half of the population is either in serious economic difficulties or already poor, youth is forced to emigrate to have a chance to build its own future, while Trieste’s streets are turning into burials of former stores, and its historic core becomes more and more downgraded.

Now in Via del Teatro there is a sandwich bar instead of our agency, while the Galleria del Tergesteo, after a soulless redesign, was downgraded from the salon of the city to a huge, crumbling and out of place pizzeria caprese, while the surviving bank is to be substituted with a poultry restaurant.

The effects of this continuing ransack were covered for some years thank to the booming border-area trade with Yugoslavia and to Eastern Europe, but when even this external resource vanished, Trieste fell once again in the middle of the economic crisis, worsened by a local Italian political establishment more and more inept, greedy, and corrupted.

It is absurd that all of this happens in the only city in Europe that has the rights of a sovereign State, international Free Port, and independent financial center granted by the United Nations Security Council and were established in order to make it an extraordinary source of wealth, for itself as for all other States.

26 October 1994

In 1994, forty years after that 26 October of 1954, the Trieste ransacked by the Italian temporary civil administration was surviving on the brink of the Croatian-Serb war that dissolved Yugoslavia, and I was taking care of analyses to monitor a secret Italian operation that risked to internationalize the crisis of former Yugoslavia, destabilising a great part of Europe.

The problem, which was already under observation since some time, consisted in the fact that certain particular Italian circles deeply infiltrated in Italian institutions wanted to take advantage of the war between Croatia and Serbia to organize accidents in Istria and blame them on Croatian nationalists, in order to justify a military intervention “in defence of the Italian minority”.

Public opinion had been prepared for that by releasing as historical truths anti-partisan fascists and Nazi historical propagandas that date back to 1943-45, and rearranged by notorious circles of the Italian nationalist and Neofascist right wing. However, the greatest support to this operation came from Italian former Communists, while the international connections of the operation linked it to Germany and to Russia, the two Countries that, together with Italy, had favoured the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia, sabotaging the attempts of the US to prevent it.

In Italy, those secret political-military activities constituted a breach of the very Constitution of the Republic and of Law 17/1982, but they were so well-protected that even the Military Prosecution had to stop its investigations on the people responsible, and the publication of news about it on Italian media was systematically prevented. Newspaper Liberazione and Paolo Ruimiz, on Il Piccolo, tried to write about it, but both were stopped after the first article.

Instead, in Slovenia and Croatia it was possible publishing such news, but none of the to Governments reacted, beccasse while that of Slovenia was subject to powerful Italian influences, that of Croatia was still fighting the war. The burden to stop this destabilising operation as well did therefore fall on the United States, but in 1994 Rome was still trying to ignore their confidential warnings.

Italian revanchist propagandas were mainly based on the false thesis that the Free Territory of Trieste had never been established, that therefore Italy had maintained its sovereignty over it, and therefore could exercise that over both Trieste and accessory “Zone B” which, instead, from 1954 had been entrusted to the administration of the Federal Yugoslav Government, which did no longer exist at that time and had sub-entrusted it to Slovenia and to Croatia.

The question of former “Zone B” had been ultimately settled by the United Nations with the 1992 Resolutions that recognise the new independent Republics of Slovenia and of Croazia within their existing borders, after plebiscites.

By doing so, the rights of State of the present-day Free Territory, consisting in its main, former “Zone A” with the capital city, the international Free Port, and five smaller Municipalities remained intact.

In order to ultimately discourage the Italian revanchist operation, it was therefore necessary reminding the Italian Government, with diplomacy but firmly, that it was not exercising sovereignty rights over Trieste, instead, it was exercising a provisional administration under a British-US mandate.

So on 26 October 1994 the U.S. Ambassador in Italy, Reginald Bartholomew, career diplomat, addressed an official letter to the people of Trieste, opening it with the greeting «on the 40th anniversary of the transition of the city to the Italian civil administration», recalling the historical and friendly ties between the people of Trieste and the United States of America, and concluding with «wishes of peace and prosperity for the path to 2000» LINK.

The message, with its elegant form, was not clear to ordinary people, but fully intellegibile to the Italian diplomats. And they did know well that during the Cold War the United States avoided to take action in the conduction of the Italian and of the Yugoslav administrations in the two zones of the Free Territory of Trieste, however, they had always taken care also to preserve the legal status of the independent Trieste and of its Free Port, until the favourable strategic time to activate their international economic functions.

26 October 2017

It took 23 more years, but today, 26 October 2017, those conditions are finally real, with the deep change in Central-Eastern Europe’s political-strategic situation and with the doubling of the Suez Canal, both of which allow to increase international traffics on the railroad Baltic-Adriatic and Transsiberian routes through Vienna-Bratislava and through the North-Eastern Adriatic ports of Trieste (Free Territory), Koper (Slovenia) and Rijeka (Croatia).

Also, there are legal instruments that make it possible extending, with proper agreements between the present-day Free Territory, Slovenia, and Croatia, special free zones of the international Free Port of Trieste also to the nearby Slovenian port of Koper and to the Croatian ports of Rijeka and of Ploče to develop trades with Hungary, with Bosnia-Herzegovina, and with Serbia.

We can therefore finally reciprocate today the 1994 wishes and greetings to the new Ambassador of the United States of America in Rome, Mr. Lewis M. Eisenberg, who has not only extraordinary personal competences in the world on international finance, but also the experience of a member and later President of the Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which has ties with the Free Port of Trieste since 1921.

On July 12th, 2017, Trieste hosted – after Paris (2016) and Vienna (2015) – the annual Western Balkans Summit, the official purpose of which is to favor the stabilization of Western Balkans including six more of them as European Union Member States. But the problem is, this integration in the EU would be destabilizing.

The summit held in Trieste is in facts the third meeting of the Westbalkan Prozess launched by Germany in 2014 with the Konferenz zum Westlichen Balkan held in Berlin to strengthen its influence over the weak States of South-Eastern Europe, using the EU as an instrument to escape the common strategies of the NATO and of the United States.

The covered operations of Italian and German revanchism

Since the end of the ‘80s, Germany and Italy attempt to gain the role of regional powers over the instable strip of former-communist Countries left behind by Russia in the West as both military shield and political baits. And, so far, the Italian and German operations in this area have damages the strategic balances of the NATO area much more than those of external opponents.

The political theses of Germany and Italy to have the right to conquer once again, in Eastern Europe and in the Balkans, the supremacy and roles lost after World War II is a consequence of the Western strategies during the Cold War, consisting in years of legitimization of German and of Italian revanchism in an anti-communist and anti-Soviet perspective.

For this purpose, from 1945 to 1989, the democratic West has supported and fuelled the most extremist right-wing European organizations, however, later, it did not deactivated them to prevent them from turning against western democracy. The same way as it happened with the mujāhidīn in Afghanistan.

The difference is, while extremist, pseudo-Islamic sects have unleashed an open war against the West, forcing it to fight, the network of European revanchists acts influencing the domestic and foreign policy of Germany and of Italy, with operations that, therefore, the other Western Countries and the EU do not question.

The roles of the two Countries in such operations are complementary: Germany does not involve itself in that directly, however, it provides them with numbers of supporters and logistics bases, while Italy uses claims against Slovenia and against Croatia on a State level to attempt creating legal and political-diplomatic precedent cases of breach of treaties and principles of international law.

This action plan was also made official in 2007, in Trieste, with the union of all European revanchist organizations, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, in an umbrella organization lead by Germany and Italy, the Europäische Union der Flüchtlinge und Vertriebenen / Unione Europea degli Esuli e degli Espulsi / European Union of Exiled and Expelled People.

Also, between the European, far-right revanchist circles and extremist pseudo-Islamic sects there are connections and ideological affinities, criminal traffics and the interests to the partition of the Mediterranean area cutting out the US, NATO, and Russia.

Human costs and strategic damages

The increasing human costs and strategic damages caused by the underestimation of those autonomous German and Italian operations in the Balkans and in Eastern Europe have already been proved by the artificial, preventable wars that dissolved Yugoslavia first, destabilizing the Balkans, and then divided Ukraine, destabilizing the political and military balances between NATO and Russia.

At the same time, the Italian Government has manages the temporary administration of the present-day Free Territory of Trieste to prevent its functions of international Free Port and independent financial center from being used to favor the stabilizations of the Balkans and of Eastern Europe.

In particular, we specialized (LINK) in analyses that contrast the operations with which Italy, together with Germany, favored the wars in Yugoslavia that the US were trying to prevent, and with which it did then politically attack independent Slovenia and Croatia with revanchist operations that were repeatedly blocked from Washington.

The connivance of the EU

Instead, for so many years, the Authorities of the EU made themselves accomplices of the destabilizing actions of Italy and Germany, either pretending to know nothing about it or supporting the German-Italian thesis that, in order to stabilize the Balkans, it would be necessary integrating them in the European Union, under conditions that have already damaged Slovenia and Croatia, but are leading to energy reactions in Hungary.

As the whole construction of the EU is collapsing because it forces on different geo-economic areas an integration made of bureaucracy, worsening economic unbalances and ruining weak States, it increases the German predominance and undermines the relations with the US, the only guarantor and historically reliable allay of Europe.

Even during the July 12th summit about Western Balkans that was held in Trieste, their integration in the EU was advocated proposing unfavorable agreements and promising German investment, together with the old rethoric about Western-European superiority and the “Balkanization”.

The myth of “Balkanization”

The “Europeanist” theses about the Balkans, in facts, continue implicitly or explicitly, to perpetrate the racist political myth of “Balkanization” as a sort of genetic inclination of the people of the Balkans to degenerate into violence, which therefore needs to be remediated by the superior “European civilization”.

Instead, the true “Balkan” nature of those people consisted in their cultural tradition to live together and trade in peace for centuries, all od this while they were overwhelmed by the wars between Empires and while Western Europeans were slaughtering each other in never-ending, fratricidal wars.

The negative “Balkanization” was created, in the 20th Century, by the very same Western politicians who have destroyed the historical coexistence of those people in Austria-Hungary first and then un Yugoslavia, every time transforming the Balkans in a political void contended between German, Italian, and Russian imperialism.

Whoever wants to have a better understanding of this area should start at least to read Most na Drini (Na Drini Ćuprija – The Bridge on the Drina) by Bosnian Nobel Prize winner Ivo Andrić (1945), and of the Réflexions sur la fin d’un Empire by Hungarian-Austrian-French Yves de Daruvar (1980).

The solutions

The strategic problem of stabilizing the Balkans is urgent and complex but, indeed, its external origins prevail on the domestic ones. And it is not just about the military defense of the area, which can and must be granted by NATO and by US bases.

The true problem is granting to those Countries and their area the balanced and sustainable economic development they need for an effective social and political stabilization. None of which will be possible is, one after another, they are reduced to poor EU Members colonized by German and Italian expansion.

The correct solution is a comprehensive strategy to consolidate the whole geo-economic Danube region, to which Western Balkans belong, under the shape of a free federation of States made of economic agreements based on real, mutual convenience, as well as on the traditional plurality of their languages, religions, and cultures.

As part of this solution, the Free Territory of Trieste, a little European sovereign State with an international Free Port and independent financial center, has a much different role than hosting the neo-colonial operations of Italian and German revanchism.

Because, as geography, economy, and history teach, Trieste is, at the same time, the gate of Western Balkans, as well as the mediterranean terminal of the Danube Region.

The 1776 Declaration of Independence that the United States of America celebrate every 4th of July as the day of their foundation is an ethical and political monument in the history of democracy and the self-determination of people, which did also inspire, since 1947, the establishment of the present-day Free Territory of Trieste and its international Statutes (LINK).

The United States has consolidated its official relations with Trieste and its Free Port since 1797, by opening there its second diplomatic representation in Europe, after that in Paris, and since 1947, together with the United Kingdom, they are the direct political and military guarantors of the present-day Free Territory of Trieste and of its international Free Port on behalf of the United Nations.

Therefore, the US, together with the United Kingdom, are also the main political and economic referents of the Free Territory of Trieste when it comes to the defense of the rights to civil and economic freedom of its citizens, residents, and enterprises, as well as of the rights of all States over its international Free Port, against the abuses committed by the bodies in charge of the provisional administration of the Free Territory, which the British and US Governments have sub-entrusted to the Italian Government.

Against such colonial-like administrative abuses, the citizens, residents, and enterprises of the Free Territory of Trieste have started a peaceful “tax revolution” that is openly inspired by the principles of the United States Declaration of Independence (LINK). On May 22nd, the promoters of the fiscal revolution have summoned the Italian Government and its fiscal Agencies before Court, for them to respond of their violations.

The action of Trieste, which the US observes with attention, is also for the advantage of the Italian brothers, ruined by the abusive taxation of their Government, lead by a “democratic” party that uses its mass media to force on the peaceful tax revolution of Trieste the same techniques of censorship and disinformation that they use to attack the republican President of the United States and his Administration (LINK).

Falsifying the information provided to the people is itself a violation of the fundamental principles of democracy and law that, since 1776, are established in the history of humanity by the United States Declaration of Independence, inspiring also the international Statutes of the present-day Free Territory of Trieste, that is going to have a fundamental role in the economic stabilization of South-Eastern Europe and of the Balkans (LINK).

We now wish a happy 4th of July to our American brothers, and a happy 4th of July to Trieste.

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Analysis by Paolo G. Parovel

Freedom of information is the fundamental, democratic right to defend te truth against all falsifications, not the opposite. Due to this, it should be clear that the disinformative war unleashed by European and US media against the new President, D. J. Trump (LINK), has nothing to do with independent press. It is a domestic and international political-strategic attack, which uses mass disinformation as a weapon.

The independence of these media is in name only. The truth is, nearly all of them are at the direct or indirect service of the circles that oppose Trump’s political and economic strategy, or to global and international strategic opponents of the US. These are the categories of opponents that are attacking the credibility of the new Administration, because that has dissolved their past influence networks and because it is willing to strengthen the United States domestically and internationally.

The case study of Italian press

In Europe, the best case study of this operation is Italy, which is the Country with the highest levels of corruption, of political influences on press, and of ambiguity towards the US and in international relations. Nearly all Italian media have huge debts, so they depend on public funding and bank loans that are influenced by politicians, and the Italian political establishment is also the less reliable of the Atlantic Alliance.

For instance, Italy has an official attitude towards the United States close to servile, however, domestically, Italian politics spreads and exploits since decades anti-American prejudices to accuse the US of its own, most inconvenient operations: from Italian domestic terrorism to the destabilizing interferences in sensitive areas like the Balkans as in the conflicts that affect the Middle East.

After the 1985 crisis of Sigonella, and after the end of the Cold War, the old ruling Italian parties were overwhelmed by scandals of political corruption, and their main three branches, – former-communists, socialists, left-wing Christian democrats – established the present-day PD, the Italian “Democratic Party” which has rehabilitated Neo-fascists, marginalized left-wing Liberal Democrats, and it has formed ten coalition Governments (1995 – 2001, 2006 – 2008, 2011 – 2017) obtaining direct or indirect control of most media, especially of the Gruppo Espresso.

The PD uses this machinery of propaganda, and the tactic support of the Neo-fascist right wing also to support the abnormal activities of Italian foreign politics in the present-day Free Territory of Trieste as well as against Slovenia and Croatia (LINK) the provocations against Egypt (LINK), the attempts to interfere in Libya (LINK), and now also the disinformative war against the new Administration of the United States, doing it with increasing violence and offensiveness.

Since Trump defends himself online denouncing the disinformations, on February 8th the Italian newspapers of the Gruppo Espresso did go as far as accusing him to be a dictator «willing to silence independent press» the same way as totalitarian regimes like Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union. At the same time, newspaper “Il Foglio” (controlled by Sorgente Group) raised the tone of the insults calling Trump «un paranoico da operetta» (which translates as “a caricatural paranoid”).

The Italian press attack is from the PD Government

Still, the core of te problem is somewhere else, because in the Italian media system, strictly influenced by politicians, the main newspaper and press agencies do not attack foreign Heads of State without the offstage consent of the Government.

The latest Italian Government to have authorized such violent attacks against a President of the United States was the Mussolini’s fascist one, in wartime, and for professed strategic and political purposes.

Instead, there are no declared strategic or political reasons why, in 2017, an Italian Government that calls itself democratic and friend of the United States associates its “independent” media to an extremely violent disinformative war against the President that has just taken office.

In the wait for an answer, it must be observed that this aggression remains the most relevant anomaly of US-Italian relations since 1945, and it confirms that the current Italian political system is an absolutely unreliable political and strategic partner.